<p>Truth is that being an NHS member or local officer isn’t going to boost one into admission at the very few colleges that factor ECs, honors into admission. Virtually everyone who applies to those colleges --places like Harvard-- would qualify for NHS.</p>
<p>Those colleges also don’t care about whether students won honors at their schools. Things like “best math student” don’t matter to those colleges. That’s because the top applicants to such colleges have won statewide and national honors and also hold national offices in organizations like NHS.</p>